Percy Charles Pickard

Group Captain Percy Charles Pick Pickard DSO amp Two Bars, DFC was a Royal Air Force bomber pilot and commander during the Second World War. He is best remembered by the public for his role in the 1941 wartime propaganda film Target for Tonight in which he featured as the pilot of F for Freddiea Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron. He was killed on Operation Jericho in 1944.

Pickard was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Framlingham College. Pickard was the son of the late P. C. Pickard and Mrs. Pickard. His sister was actress Helena Pickard, married to English actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

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